Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because "men cannot visit women in their dormitories and vice versa," the Summer School assists social life by providing Common Rooms and operating a Messenger Service. "But," Miss Williston explained, "men can send messages to men, or women to men as well. We don't check the sexes...
...quiet place to entertain guests" is the social program's description of the Grays 1 Common Room. It is open Monday through Friday from 9 A.M. to 11 P.M., and weekends from 1 P.M. to 11 P.M. Magazines, newspapers, or a quiet game of cards or chess are available...
...atmosphere of mass exultation that attended the birth of the United Arab Republic last February, Egyptian and Syrian leaders acted as if the union of their two countries, which do not even share a common border, were the most natural thing in the world. The U.A.R.'s propagandists denounced the rival Hashemite Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan* as a "sham" that would soon collapse, while theirs was a merger of peoples bound by history, blood and religion. Impulsive Syrians, who voted almost unanimously for Gamal Abdel Nasser as the first President of the new republic, thought...
...embarrassment, the industry generally maintains an uneasy silence rather than offering excuses or explanations. But last week it was easy to draw complaints and recriminations from all sides. The blasts had one thing in common: everybody blamed the other...
...Said Kenneth Ward, partner of Hayden, Stone & Co.: "Common stocks are being purchased as a hedge against long-term inflation. Investors are beginning to realize that many companies are lowering their break-even points, so that when business improves, profits will be better than ever. If we get a pickup in durable sales and a cleaning out of inventories, there will be grounds for a new bull market...